The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-08-21


nothing but neutrality. l will even tell you
conndentialy while we are on this subject.
that a means might be found OF making the
scale incline In your favor. You have impris-
oned the Archbishop Of Paris This measure
has aroused public opinion against you. For
instance. this very day Prince Bismarck rc-
ceiyed a protest from the Bishops OF England
and those OF Bavaria with q petition that he
would Interfere. II you would but simply sct
at liberty the Archbishop and his sister, the
current Of opinion would turn forthwith
in your favor. That Ia merely q bit OF
advice that / ofrer you The arrest
OF the Archbishop answered Cluserst'
and that OF the priests In general, is'
admit. an enormous blunder from
political point Of view. Tho thing was done
before know Of 1t, and II 1t was TO do would
prevent it. But II is done. They have stuffed
tho people with the silly notion that they can
get back Blanuui in exchange for the Arch
bishop For that matter they've been feeding
the people with priests for years. and. although
Chaudey OF the Steele has been clapped into
jail as hostage BY the side OF the Arch bishop,
It IL mono the less true that the masses are
Just now subservient to the bourgeois Or
ders OF the Siecle-namely. to chaw up
the priests. While thcy are chawing
up the priests they are In their turn
chawed up by the bourgeois. who faunts
tho priest as the bull fighter does rcd flag to
divert the fury Of the bull I will not conceal
from you that l consider the release OF the
Archbishop excessively difficult. II not impos-
sible. will speak to the Council about it. AZ
all events it shall be my care to provide for his
safety as long a. no is imprisoned. With his
sister the case Is different; will make her
deliverance my business. This Cluseret 40
no fri duO NJ
bishop az to his situation Ia prison. He runs
no risk and lacks nothing.
We should say here that Uuseret had al
ready. in conformity with the request
Of Minister washburne. forced Rigault.
the Project OF Police under the Commune,
to Hberate Monsignor Darboy from solitary
confinement and to allow the Minister access
to him. But to resume the colloIuy with
Holstein: Let us pass over" said Cluseret.
1.-THE affair OF the Archbishop which l sum up
in this way: will do what can; and let us
talk a little about such interests az are COM
mon to your Government and the Paris Com
mune. II the Versailles authorities triumph.
that means sooner or later the reestablish-
ment OF monarchy" The reader will remem-
Der that In view of the pronounced monarchl-
cal majority which then existed In the YER
sailles Assembly, this prediction seemed
well founded There is no species OF
monarchy" continued the Commune's War
Minister, (which can. will not say. main
tain itself In France, for none can do
that but even try to maintain itself.
without a promise Of revenge. You smile.
1t cannot keep the promise. l know that bet
ter than any one. A people only fights for
what It loves and the French people hates the
castles that govern 1t. AS to tho officers, they
only fight for their nay. Put their pay at stake.
and they will fight for 1t as dogs fight for
bone. Reassure them upon that point. they'll
let themselves be taken prisoners and will
yield up their swords. 1t is nevertheless true
that Franco, to give the semblance OF reality to
those belcose professions, will be forced to
ruin herself in ornaments, compelling you to
do the same.
docs not every government need at least
the sembIancs OF a reason for its existence
The urmy. paid by the people to serve against
you Germans would in reality serve only
against itself, and that Is what We all are In
terested in preventing. Let me add that re-
public established by the Versailles Assembly
would be as bad as any species OF monarchy.
since 1t would be more reactionary, more des-
potie and less responsible. The unity OF pow
err. whether 1t IL lodged in an Assembly or a
man, leads inevitably to despotism. Its Ex
ecutive will be It's lackey or it's maid OF all
work. Being essentially bad, it is forced to be
beilicose in order to hide its faults and bury
liberty under a noisy clauuinism. You have
Just hal an example Of what I mean In the
person OF Napoleon III.
"Thus whatever happens, II Versailles tri-
umphs. you have nothing before you but per-
petual disuuietude. Never will you have mo-
ment's rest. Yet Germany needs rest at least
as much as France. You have iron. but no gold.
Glory has no credit with the baker, and your
people. though Just now pulled up with the pride
OF country, will regard TO- morrow In the German
fatherland only the side truly interesting-the
material side. There is something besides
dukes and counts In a nation. something be-
sides officers in an army. Why. already you
can hear tho clamors Of your soldiers, furious
at being kept so long In France" 1t Is true"
admitted Baron Holstein, that We are
in hurry to get home. Discipline Is
suffering" How, then. will 1t be2" asked
Cluseret. when this situation. become chronic.
shall force you TO keel under the colors the
mon whom the public Interest summons to the
fields or to the workshop1 Your pariaments,
no doubt. will stand by you. but who will stand
by your parliaments? I tell you that you will
see the germ OF revolution introduced into
Germany.
On the other hand. with tho Commune tri-
umphant tho scene will completely change
Not that we would ronounce Alsace and Lor-
raine; We want even more than that, but We
would get at 1t in another way.
LAS workers, we hold war In adherence. and
we are athirst for peace. Ours are the battles
OF peace we neither provoke nor dream Of
any Others and the money that we shall pay
you as war indemnity We count upon recover
ing. with interest, rs the wage oil our enamel
pated labor. Ali liberated labor. you have no
idea of its puissance OF productionl You have
no conception OF the volume consumption may
attain when 1t is multiplied by the sum
total OF producers. At present consump-
ton represents only the demands OF con-
sumers in q narrow sense, special class, n
class whose function Is TO manage everything.
enjoy everything do nothing, absorb every
thing, digest everything and give back moth
ing In exchange. have seen the difference"
continued Clussret. lin the United States,
although there. too, capital is beginning to
show its teeth have seen consumption al
most universalized by reason OF the absence
OF classes circumscribed only by the national